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Not Sorry

Published on April 21, 2019.

In the past few days I had read a couple of books. In “The Mastery of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz I found

Love is ruthless, it doesn’t feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone. You feel sorry for me when you don’t respect me, when you don’t think I am strong enough to make it. On the other hand, love respects. I love you; I know you can make it. I know you are strong enough, intelligent enough, good enough that you can make your own choices. I don’t have to make your choices for you. You can make it. If you fail, I can gve you my hand, I can help you to stand up. I can say, “You can do it, go ahead.” That is compassion, but it is not the same as feeling sorry. Compassion comes from respect and from love, feeling sorry comes from a lack of respect and from fear.
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Wieliczka Salt Mine

Published on April 18, 2019.

I visited Krakow, Poland last weekend and my good friend Piotr went with me to visit Wieliczka Salt Mine.

Burn Out

Published on April 17, 2019.

Bjarni Rúnar wrote a blog post on mailpile about burn out. Bjarni said

I care deeply about this project, but it really is too big for one person and I haven’t successfully built a team to support me. That’s not to discount the contributions and efforts of our community, but at the end of the day I’ve been the one responsible for keeping the ball rolling. I review the pull requests, I respond to issues, I file the tax returns, I try to spend your donations wisely… and I write most of the code. Doing this well is a lot of work!
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101 Screts For Your Twenties: Breakup

Published on April 13, 2019.

On the previous blog post, I clustered the secrets related to dating and marriage but I left aside the ones about breakup.

Paul wrote

Every breakup has two breakups. (…) you’ll have the first tearful “It’s over” sitting in front seat of your Honda or on a park swing. then 1-2 months later after there’s “been talk”, you’ll have the “real breakup” because [he/]she forgets to call like [he/]she used to (…) And gird those loins because in the second breakup there will be a lot more breaking.
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101 Screts For Your Twenties: Love life

Published on April 12, 2019.

You can’t have a book called “101 Secrets For Your Twenties” without a single secret to help people on their love life. Paul Angone wrote a couple of chapters about dating and marriage and I will cover both on the same blog post.